Usage examples (10)

• Career prosecutors at Justice see the independent-counsel law as an affront to their professionalism.
• Republicans and Democrats were ready to pull the plug on the independent-counsel law, which expires in December.
• Even if the independent-counsel statute is changed, the political culture could be affected for years by the events of this week.
• When he inherited Justice, Edwin Meese had just left under a cloud of two independent-counsel investigations; the department was widely perceived as adrift.